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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section I.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Aristotle define "Recognition"?
(a) An understanding of something.
(b) A sudden realization that one is familiar with something.
(c) A deep knowing.
(d) A change from ignorance to knowledge.
2. In order for a plot to be truly effective in achieving the desired emotional response from its readers or audience, Aristotle says that the poet must do what?
(a) Pick characters that the audience can easily pity.
(b) Write a tragedy with a sad ending.
(c) Pick characters whose relationships to one another make the actions of the plot more interesting.
(d) Infuse irony throughout the story.
3. What does Aristotle consider to be secondary to the most essential element of tragedy?
(a) Development of imitation.
(b) Development of rhyme.
(c) Development of irony.
(d) Development of character.
4. Aristotle says that storytelling with episodic plots is to be favored by whom?
(a) Homer.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Poor poets.
(d) No one.
5. Per Aristotle, in which of the following ways does poetry NOT differ from history?
(a) Poetry depicts what happens according to the "laws of probability and necessity."
(b) Poetry is a higher pursuit than history.
(c) History is concerned simply with facts.
(d) Poetry tells the future, and history tells the past.
Short Answer Questions
1. What two things does Aristotle require to be present in a well-written story?
2. According to Aristotle, how should the plot of a well-written tragedy be structured?
3. Concerning the "laws of probability and necessity," what statement below is NOT correct according to Aristotle's teachings in "Poetics"?
4. When a poet presents the poem in the voice of one of the characters, what method does Aristotle say that the poet is using?
5. What type of action does Aristotle say occurs with "Recognition" and/or "Reversal of Situation"?
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